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We now have a once-in-a-century opportunity to fashion workable economic solutions to poverty, discrimination, homelessness, youth unemployment, the lack of mental health supports and inadequate childcare.
Anti-poverty activists and organizers, pictured on Parliament Hill on Oct. 12, 2017. We can go down a traditional path to recovery or we can fashion a truly equitable economic rebuild. The upcoming budget will signal if Ottawa is seeking a meaningful transition to inclusive economic change that provides tangible benefits for all, write Abdul Nakua and Bruce MacDonald.
As the vaccine rollout gathers steam, the long-awaited economic rebuild is finally around the corner. But what form will economic recovery take? Will we return to the status quo or will we put people first by implementing economic reforms to correct the systemic inequalities so glaringly showcased ...

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